The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after finding the Saudi government hacked his phone and was likely behind a physical attack targeting him in London.
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
The Irish government announced that it wants to pass a law that would grant police more surveillance powers, such as using spyware to fight serious crime, while aiming to protect the privacy rights of its citizens.
The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.
Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO’s Pegasus or Paragon’s Graphite. What happens after receiving a threat notification?
The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.